Gregory's ServerHello! We are a small independent bookshop in Stow, in the Scottish Borders. We are no longer using Twitter, for obvious reasons, but could use some new followers on Mastodon and other social media channels - where our presence is smaller than on Twitter. Please help / share this is you can! Thank you.
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@WedaleBooks @seanbala Sean touches on one of the bigger differences between Mastodon/Fediverse and other social media - people can follow hashtags, not just accounts. So using hashtags actually gets through to the people who follow that topic, and will help you expand your reach here. @seanbala @WedaleBooks @books @bookstodon Hello there! Adding a Finnish hashtag or two into the mix #kirjamastodon #kirjat #lukeminen  @WedaleBooks @books @bookstodon Might want to also see if you can get added to the @FediFollows bookshop list. It is a nice curated list of good accounts to follow. It is often a good place for people to get started on the Fediverse. https://fedi.directory/tag/bookshops/ You just have to ask the account above or send them a DM.   @WedaleBooks welcome to Mastodon! I am now following you and if I happen to be in your area, Iโll visit! @WedaleBooks We've not had any problems on X so far that were worse than the telling off we got the 1st week we were on here.  Okay but now I want to go there.... (I wonder if they'll have the pandemic under control by the next time Worldcon is in Scotland ๐ข @solitha Thanks ๐ @WedaleBooks You might want to tap into the #bookstodon hashtag to find folk here too.  @eclectech @solitha @WedaleBooks I was just going to suggest using more hashtags for better reach ๐ you beat me to it ๐ @WedaleBooks Note that you can edit your posts to add relevant hashtags--which are much more useful here than over there, as people use them to follow topics of interest.    @WedaleBooks Been to Stow several times, lovely place to visit, as is the whole Borders area. Good luck!    @WedaleBooks    @WedaleBooks Can you recommend a us alternative to Amazon? What books should I send her?  @WedaleBooks Thanks for getting off Musk's hellsite. You'll find Mastodon's engagement to be much more real.  @TCatInReality @WedaleBooks Amen to that! More engaging humans here, as opposed to bots and worse! I am pleased to have found you. Iโve just placed an order, though of course I leave it until late in the day. I can wait. ๐ @WedaleBooks you need to get some great/terrible book jokes. And post pictures of your big concrete balls.  @WedaleBooks Hello from Canada! Warm welcome "here" and wishing you all the best! ๐  @WedaleBooks They are in a great location - cafe/wee art gallery nearby, railway station walking distance, on bus route, a wee Broch just up the hill and best of all a great selection of books as well as events and promotion of Borders authors.  Is there a way to buy books from you if I am located in North America? Bookshop doesn't exist in Canada so I'm guessing this is not possible?  @WedaleBooks The part of the world my Scottish ancestors are from so you get my follow even though I'm very far away. Olivers & Mitchells ftw! :)  @WedaleBooks Hi! ๐ On the Fediverse, you donโt really need followers, you just need to post with hashtags, then people who subscribe to the hashtags will see it. Itโs much easier here to get interactions as a small account than the other social networks.    @WedaleBooks @WedaleBooks will be in the Edinburgh area the second week of September and I love bookshops! Hope to make it to yours. @WedaleBooks What are the chances? I drove through Stow yesterday! Didnโt know about you but happy to find out now. Hope to get down again soon. In the meantime, welcome to Mastodon!   @WedaleBooks welcome! Please give us regular suggestions of books that have dogs or cats in them. You'll reach those audiences with #DogsOfMastodon , #CatsOfMastodon and #Bookstodon . Apparently silly monsters are also a thing on here.  Hello, I live in New Hampshire, in America. Happy to share to what audience I have. :)  @WedaleBooks Great to hear that you left Twitter, ahem, Xโฆ.. @WedaleBooks I am not near the bookshop (but I wish I was as I would want to go there). Bibliophile and bibliomane. But I also am an ailurophile so I wonder if I would share an actual photo of the kitty? I would love to see it (him? her?).  @WedaleBooks I love wandering in bookshops! I hope you feel welcomed in the fediverse. Have fun! @WedaleBooks I love an independent bookshop and always hunt one out when on holiday. If we're ever in the area, we'll pop in.  @WedaleBooks I saw your post and mention of the boarder and immediately the play "Engaged" by William Gilbert popped into my mind.  @WedaleBooks Welcome to you and to Lucas the cat from Canada. @WedaleBooks nice to meet you! I'm north of Edinburgh, but will have to stop by next time I'm through the borders :) @WedaleBooks Wow! Thank you so much to everyone for their follows, likes and kind comments! We are truly overwhelmed! We are a Scottish bookshop with an international outlook, specialising in fiction from around the world, Scottish history, nature and the environment and folklore. We look forward to welcoming you here or for UK book buyers online at https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/WedaleBooks #bookstodon #localbookshop #independentbookshop #scotland #scottishborders @WedaleBooks hashtags!! You have to use the hashtags here. Itโs how people will discover you. Go back and edit them in ๐ @WedaleBooks ๐ nothing rookie about it! I often forget! Itโs just that here itโs much more important for reach. People follow hashtags for what interests them & using them in your posts means your posts will be boosted automatically to everyone who follows the particular hashtag/s you have used. And bookish stuff is quite big here hence e.g #Bookstodon (You should also know that mini-lectures about Mastodon usage are also a thing ๐) @TheEdinburghBookshop @WedaleBooks itโs great isnโt it? I use it all the time - usually to edit hashtags in when Iโve forgotten ๐ @WedaleBooks In the unlikely event Iโm ever in the neighbourhood, Iโll drop by for sure. ๐ And here are a few hashtags that may help folks discover you here:  @WedaleBooks I'm sure I've seen you boosted onto my timeline three or four times today! Welcome to the Fediverse, I'm sure we'll drop in next time we're in the area! Have you thought about a Friendica or Diaspora account? There are places Mastodon does not reach.
 @WedaleBooks @rmordecai Just drawing you to the attention of my Inverness friend @simonvarwell...    @WedaleBooks Hello from Hexham! Our family likes a good bookshop, and trips across the border(*). We were up the A68 to Edinburgh today but only seen this just now. We should pop in some time over the summer! (*) Promise to leave you with as many sheep as before we arrived.   @WedaleBooks @heidilifeldman Iโll be in your part of the world later this month from Australia โ bookmarking this for a visit! Welcome to the fediverse. @WedaleBooks for probably the same reason as you, I am decamping from Twitter to here and am happy to give you a boost (if I can discover how ! ) @WedaleBooks @WedaleBooks I have also decamped from Twitter as the current owner has gone too far and is, in my humble opinion, clean aff the top shelf! @WedaleBooks Welcome! Now I know where to order books for my adult children in Scotland/ northern England. @WedaleBooks As a McRae of Scottish ancestry, I followed immediately. Hope to visit one day. Independent bookstores are so rare yet so important. @WedaleBooks I've added you to my map of places to visit on my first trip to Scotland later this year! Good for you. I wish all decent businesses would leave. I left 2 years ago and do no regret it. @WedaleBooks I was in the Scottish borders just a week ago and loved loved loved em plus I'm a book nut. Following! @WedaleBooks Hello from across the way! Any bookshop or library is welcome here. Hope you find many more good folks to share things with. :ablobcatbouncefast: Hey there @WedaleBooks, you sound like a nice little place! I've been off twitter for long enough now to not know what obvious reasons might be, unless the stuff that made me leave has gotten progressively worse. Regardless, fork that place, welcome! I hope you'll enjoy your stay here. As the fediverse has no algorithm but many, many users are following hashtags if not accounts, visibility depends on you using hashtags. Some suggested hashtags are #bookodon #bookodons #books #book ๐๐ผ @WedaleBooks and by the way tell us more about Lucas, please (good tags for him should be FediCats, CatsOfMastodon, WhiskersWednesday, CaturdayEveryDay and Caturday, and trust me we need pics of book store cats here) @WedaleBooks I keep thinking I should drop in as I pass heading from Gala to Edinburgh. Seeing you here makes should into must.  Do you have Crime and Punishment from Dostoyevsky? My son is interested in reading it. We're currently vacationing in Scotland and if there's a good route from Inverness to Newcastle that leads through Stow, we just might make a stop there. |
@WedaleBooks Tagging a few relevant hashtags - check out this independent bookshop in the UK. They've left Twitter and are looking to build up more community here!
#books #bookstodon #bookshop #scotland #smallbusiness #reading #readingcommunity #uk #unitedkingdom #twittermigration @books @bookstodon